Marsh v. Marsh

The Chancellor.

The practice in the English Ecclesiastical Courts on a charge of adultery, either in the libel or in, the responsive allegation, is to set out circumstantially all the principal facts of the case as proposed to be proved. The libel states, also, the various acts of adultery intended to be relied on; when, where, and with whom committed. Dillon v. Dillon, 3 Curteis 86; Shelford on Mar. & D. 398.

The same degree of particularity has not been adopted in bills for divorce in this country. But it is settled that a general allegation that the defendant, within a specified time, *395has…